No, no, no... NO! That is like claiming that a wine cooler is good stuff in comparison to a quality -- not necessarily expensive -- chilled white wine.

Only Cuervo's top end products are passable and those are overpriced. Cuervo Gold is one of the worst tequilas made; it is 49% of the nastiest cane sugar alcohol around (bum rum, effectively) with caramel and food coloring to give it that sickly golden glow. These "margarita minis" are even worse -- zero consideration for "tequila" quality and a nasty mix of way too many ingredients. Cuervo's only "standard" has focused on very effectively using marketing to sell tons and tons of shlocky quality product to a clueless population.

Margarita mixes are even worse. Anything fruit juice based needs to be fresh (or fresh frozen). Bottling it and letting it sit on a shelf means that it has to have all kinds of nasty flavor modifying stabilizers to gain any kind of a shelf life.

A good margarita is trivial to make and requires nothing more than a decent 100% blue agave tequila, fresh limes and some ice.

From that base, you can adjust ratios and flavors through the use of other kinds of fruit, the addition of Cointreau, using cane sugar or agave nectar for sweetness. Salt on the rim is purely optional and is generally served with bad margaritas -- ones made with cuervo gold and any premade mix -- to cover the awful flavor.

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I think this post was a paid advertisement. All the cool marketers are into subversive blogvertising these days.

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Well then, your writing style came off way too strong as marketing boilerplate. Maybe Cuervo should be paying you. It's also the second Cuervo post in roughly 24 hours, so it seemed suspicious.

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This wasn't an ad? Wow. Color me shocked. And who needs a blender to make a margarita on the rocks, like this bottle? And no blender at a tailgate party? That's one sad tailgate.

For that matter, this doesn't provide margarita glasses, either. Just drink your homemade margarita out of a Solo cup. You're less likely to get busted by the cops for that, anyway.

Anyway, I completely agree with Eric. This was more like advertising than Cuervo's own copy on their flash-based website.

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Actually, a simple margarita is remarkably portable. You can opt to carry the fresh squeeze lime juice (possibly with a little added sugar or other sweetening ingredient) in a bottle in a cooler of ice. Or, as long as it isn't going to sit for more than 24 hours on ice, just mix the tequila in at the beginning of the day. Keep it in a jug on ice and pour out into cups for serving.

No need for glassware or a blender (unless you prefer a frozen margarita -- of which a margarita mini is a far cry from a frozen margarita).

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